ACCIDENTS AND FATALITES.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 134, 29 February 1908, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITES.

. (ay phess ' association''. ' FALL' Fltrar A SCAFFOLD. ' Napier, Februaiy 28 . Hairy -Wilton, aged/38j- a plast;'r^r.j.'employed on tho Caledonian Hotel, died to-day ; as').thei ; rosult ';bf injuries. sustained; by a fa(l from a; sca{foJd.. ; : , Deceased was -single,, alid "so far as is knoTni;:'had no relatives in .the. colony. ' • • CHPFTCHURCII MOTOR-CAR ACCIDENT , ; Christchurch; February 28; Mr. 'Merrett, 'injured.: in';.the'recent motorcar accident,, is progressing slowly in tho hospitals/but has not Wholly recovered consciousness.' -' ' '.' y ' ,/ SUDDEN DEATH. • .' • Napier, February 28. .. A-;manV named -W. : . Carson, a wool scourer employed; at -iTonloana;';/ died suddonly j jthis. afternoon. Ho ; was' seized/witH a violent t fit of coughing j : and "diqd in: a hemorrhage. ; 'Deceased was/a married man, ,who. t .residod at'. Hastings. .; j. .. \ ;

CHILD: RUN' OVER BY A MILK CART. '■According ' to 'a. 'report''received';by'' tho police; a' fatal accident c&urred 'at' the Lower . Hutt'' oh' Thursdayevening.. t Tho ; - victim was 'a child, named Lay-, two years of age, whoso father is a-' storekeeper at the Hutt. Tho infant! . was'" attempting ' to' cross "'tho street from tho'Police . Station to'it? ; father's ■store'about'6.3o < : p.m.,: ivhen ; it was run over by a - milk cart,' driven by d youth named Craig; tiyelvo years of. ago.: 'It is stated tliat: two mill:'carts were going along' tho' street' at'ah'easy pacei'and both in the samo direction, : at 'tho. timo of/ tho- accident.' Tho driverr oftile .second cart/did not seo ,tho child .until tho .accident occurred. The sufferer '.wai'V.oiiderjea ; to-;:' ; thb .Hospital immediately, but died on tho way, to 1 Petono, 1 the body' ; being" then taken 'back., to: tho Hutt... An ifa.qucstj i.Md-ljol.held at'-thp Hutt .at.4 o'clock this afternoon. '■ .. ; .- . . "'. . ■ ACCIDENT ON THE WHAftF. : A. steward' named H. Gv Earvoy, belonging to. thoSh'aw/;Savill. steamer Arawa, !met with- an'accident oil' the wliarf.-.at lL3o ; i.yes- : terday '.morning. ; that .Harvey, wlijO had-been-,on. shore ..during tho ; morning,; was returning" Oh .board his ship, t ,ind when half-way.'\up A tho gangway lost liib balance and fell over, tho'sido'of the gangway, a distance'of about-14. feet. * According-to an eye-witness,' tho unfortunate man foil .on •to -tho'wharf,- hid. shoulder and head striking tho planking., ;Bb was' picked up in an unconscious condition, anil, after being at-: -tondkl'to by the ship's doctor, \vns' removedto . tho . Wellington. Hospital/,Harvoy received a cut on tho back of the head and 'concussion of tho brain. . •' ■ . . '

A labourer . named Wni: • Linkin, residing in Sages Lane, was admitted to tho Hospital yesterday suffering- from a severe- cut in the head. Linkin 'was picked up at the corner of Vivian and Cub's Streets. ." 'v-